Thomas Mann

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.